2024

22. Visegrad Summer School - Future of Media

Ersan Pekin

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Ersan
Pekin

Ersan Pekin is a Turkish writer and former journalist. He is the author of Kadınlar Yedi Bitirdi Beni (Consumed by Women), published in 2013, which tells the story of a man suffering from sex addiction. He self-published the Puzzle trilogy (2019-2021) as well as three novels in English: "Roots" (2021), "Pathetic and Synthetic Thoughts in a Jar" (2021) and "Earthscraper" (2021). His novels explore the dynamics of relationships between men and women, and blurred lines between reality and dreams.

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Daniel Moßbrucker

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Daniel
Moßbrucker

Daniel Moßbruckeris a German journalist covering the topics surveillance, data protection and internet regulation. He trains journalists in digital security and is about to finish a dissertation about the impact of digital surveillance on journalistic work.

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Gürkan Özturan

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Gürkan
Özturan

Gürkan Özturan is the Media Freedom Monitoring Officer for Media Freedom Rapid Response at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. He holds two M.A.

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Attila Mong

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Attila
Mong

Attila Mong is CPJ's Berlin-based Europe representative. A freelance journalist and a consultant for German media development organization DW Akademie, he is also a supervisory board member of atlatszo.hu, a crowdfunded investigative journalism platform in his native Hungary. Mong has worked as an investigative journalist, radio broadcaster, and columnist for 20 years. In 2013, he completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, a program focused on leadership and innovation in journalism.

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Beata Balogová

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Beata
Balogová

Beata Balogová is editor-in-chief of the SME daily newspaper [2], one of the major independent dailies in the Slovak Republic. She joined SME in 2014, having previously been editor of Slovakia's English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator from 2003 to 2014. Beata was a Fulbright scholar of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia and she also holds a master's degree in journalism from the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

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